Milan Dostal, ex-Newport mayor, dies at 87; service Thursday

Milan Mathias Dostal, a former Newport Beach mayor, died June 27. He was 87.

Dostal served on the City Council from 1970 to 1978 and was mayor from 1976 to ’78.

He, his first wife, Dorothy Olsen, and children Rick and Cindy moved in 1964 from Maryland to Newport Beach, where Dostal’s third child, Pam, was born.

Dostal established his law practice in Newport after having worked for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., as a trial attorney specializing in tort and aviation law.

Dostal was appointed a U.S. administrative law judge in 1989 and served as a judge in Orange and Los Angeles counties and Arizona before he retired in 2012.

Dorothy died soon after Dostal was appointed judge, and he married Kay Boss in 1990. They later moved to Tucson, Ariz., where they lived for six years.

In 2014, the couple moved to Orange County to live in Irvine.

Dostal is survived by Kay; children Rick, Cindy and her husband, Bob Long, and Pam and her husband, John Burns; stepchildren Eric and Peter Boss; sister Margaret Selleseth; three grandchildren and six nieces and nephews.

A memorial service for Dostal will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 600 St. Andrews Road, Newport Beach.

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Alex Chan, alexandra.chan@latimes.com

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